Marina Hasselberg - Creative Cellist
Marina Hasselberg meets me on the occasion of her shows at the Vancouver jazz festival.
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On the Rhythm Changes Podcast, Marina Hasselberg meets me on the occasion of her shows at the Vancouver jazz festival.
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We talked about:
- How Marina coped with the summer 2021 heat wave, based on her time in Portugal
- The case for Ironworks as the best jazz fest venue
- Performing there with Jeff Younger’s Dreaming Skies
- What she’s doing for her jazzfest show at the Western Front
- How to get ready for gigs in the covid era
- Being both a classical musician and an improviser
- Making a work for the Isolation Commissions
- Working with other people’s music
- A shout out to Giorgio Magnanensi
- What musical roles Marina imagined herself in while coming up
- Her takes on people who grew up in Vancouver
- Thoughts on what different organizations could do to help the creative music scene
- Which groups would benefit most from marketing support: NOW Orchestra, Hard Rubber Orchestra, Early Music Vancouver
- Venues we care about including the China Cloud and 8EAST
- Should a media person like me go broad, or focus on one niche at a time until it’s a solid part of that niche?
- Cory Weeds’ promotional blueprint
- The challenge of finding time to make good, recent content alongside your releases and gigs
- How labour politics might factor into the situation
- making her first album with Aram Bajakian, Jesse Zubot, Kenton Loewen, and more